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Paragraph Number

128

In one embodiment, the secondary ECC module 304 includes a direct current (DC) balance module 404. In a further embodiment, the secondary, inner error correcting code may include a balanced code, and the DC balance module 404 may determine information about a balance or bias of the at least one ECC chunk encoded with multiple error correcting codes. In a certain embodiment, the error information described above may include the information about the balance or bias of the at least one ECC chunk, from the DC balance module 404 or the like.

Added by DJM 2 2021